The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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